@Cara: Consider using presigned URLs
#72
by 0xmerp - opened
I am neither pro nor anti, but feel bad for Cara users.
It seems this whole problem is trivially solved by Cara by simply using a proper object storage such as R2 with presigned URLs.
This won't fix the case where users scrape Cara and simply download the files right away, but it will make the URLs expire, making link archives like this worthless. Cloudflare R2 also has the benefit of being most likely cheaper than whatever you're using right now.
You will not block scraping altogether. I am aware of scripts which are able to scrape just about any platform you can think of. But you can block link archives like this, easily.